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NOTES
1. Numerous formal definitions of marriage have been proposed, and I do not wish to claim that mine will render all others superfluous. Its immediate inspiration was the paper "Two Becoming One Flesh: Marriage as a Sexual and Economic Union" by Allan Carlson, Intercollegiate Review, Fall/Winter 2004.
2. Evolutionary pressures in prehistoric Europe may have served to reinforce in our ancestors this paternal tendency present to some degree in all races: see, e.g., Prof. Kevin MacDonald's essay, "What Makes Western Culture Unique?" The Occidental Quarterly, 2:2 (Winter 2002-2003). (The essay is posted at Kevinmacdonald.net.)
3. Many feminists have correctly perceived that chivalry is a kind of sham that serves to conceal unpleasant realities about relations between the sexes; but they wrongly believe the realities are female "slavery" and "oppression," and that men are the intended beneficiaries of the concealment.
4. From Sylvia Hewlitt, Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children (New York: Talk Miramax, 2002).
5. Warren Farrell, Why Men Are the Way They Are (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986), p. 60.
6. Farrell, pp. 56-62.
7. Steven L. Kuhn and Mary C. Stiner, "What's a Mother to Do: The Division of Labor among Neanderthals and Modern Humans in Eurasia," Current Anthropology 47:6, December 2006.
8. See de.groups.yahoo.com/group/stop_feminazis/message/22.
9. Lawrence Hall, "Men Give Plan Low Marks," Star-Ledger (New Jersey), August 16, 1999.
10. Philosophically minded readers may be interested to know that I am drawing here upon Alexandre Kojève's interpretation of Hegel's Lord and Bondsman passage. See Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit, chapter 4.
11. Tönnies, Community and Society (Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft), 1887.
12. Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders, Eva Heller, 1987. The heroine's name is Wechselburger, from the German wechseln: "to change" or "switch."
13. An outstanding portrayal of the modern woman who "can't commit" is the character Charlotte Pingress, played by Kate Beckinsale in Whit Stillman's movie "The Last Days of Disco" (1998).
14. Decadence: A Philosophical Investigation (New York: The Philosophical Library, Inc., no date),
p. 15.
15. From Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States, 11, available at www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/p60-231.pdf.
16. Steven E. Rhoads, Taking Sex Differences Seriously (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2004), p. 200.
17. Rhoads, p. 65.
18. Ibid.
19. Jennifer Roback Morse, quoted in Rhoads, p. 257.
20. See my "Rotating Polyandry — and its Enforcers," The Occidental Quarterly, Summer 2007, www.theoccidentalquarterly.com/archives/vol7no2/v7no2_Devlin.pdf.
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